In 2006, I used a 3.1 MP digicam and was fairly satisfied to get a well composed photo in my first attempt – or took multiple exposure of same scene with a different composition and different settings to get image worthy of showing in full screen. Past few years saw a rapid increase in Mega Pixel rating of the digicam. It is rather impossible to get a camera with less than 8 MP nowadays. An 8 MP photo will give an image of 2 to 3 MB each which is really not necessary. Moreover, the memory stick gets exhausted too fast for comfort. One gets over this problem of high MP by setting the digicam at lower MP and then goes ahead for photo shooting. But, then one has really not used the camera to capacity for which it is designed. Those who take their picture with high optical zoom and also make use of digital zoom do make use of the full pixel rating. In such an attempt a tripod mounting of digicam becomes a necessity. One way of making full pixel capacity of camera is to take a picture and use the photo cropping to get multiple meaningful images. Such an exercise is demonstrated as below.
The demo image is one I captured at Pin valley, Himachal
Pradesh, in May 2014. The camera is Canon IXUS 132 with 16MP and 8X optical
zoom. Image size is 2.47 MB with 3264 x 2488 pixels with no photo editing what
so ever.
Image Composition 1
Image size
278 KB with 1600 x 1200 pixels & 20 points color saturation.
Image
Composition 2
Image size 561 KB with 1600 x 1200 pixels with 10 points color
correction
Image Composition 3
Image size 345 KB with 800 x 600 pixels with 20 points color
saturation
Image Composition 4
Image size 345 KB with 800 x 600 pixels with 20 points color saturation
Image Composition 5
Image size 345 KB with 1200 x 900 pixels with 20 points color
saturation
Image Composition 6
Image size 600 KB with 1600 x 1200 pixels with 20 points color
saturation
* All composed images are obtained after editing for cropping and color saturation.
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